It is the hope, Harry Redknapp might observe, that kills you. Just when Queens
Park Rangers thought they had a glimmer of salvation, just as they were
starting to believe that they were not yet done for, it was all snatched
away. So close, so cruel. Yes, it’s the hope that kills you. But then, as
Redknapp might also observe, there are times when your players really do not
help.

QPR have developed a fine gift for hari-kiri. They can be relied upon to
discover new and inventive ways to shoot themselves in the foot, to sabotage
their own attempts